"You could be large and lean, or thin and flabby!"

Chapter 2

Pounds Don't Count

A New Way to Watch Your Weight

• Are you thinking of taking off a few
  pounds?
• Did you know you could become leaner
   by gaining weight?
• Would you like to be thin?
• Did you know becoming thinner could
  make you fatter?
• Do you weigh the same as you weighed
  when you were younger?
• Did you know you may have gained body
  fat even though the scale says you haven’t?

IF YOU are surprised by any of these 
statements, you, and millions of others like you, are being tricked and misled by 

 counting pounds. That’s right, watching your weight by counting pounds is preventing you from achieving your optimum body weight. There’s a new and better way to watch your weight.

A Pound Is a Pound

WHICH WEIGHS more, a pound of gold coins or a pound of feathers? Since a pound is a pound, it doesn’t matter whether you are comparing gold, feathers or whatever, a pound of something always weighs as much as a pound of something else. It just takes a greater volume of feathers than gold coins to add up to a pound. On a pound for pound basis, a small stack of gold coins and a large bundle of feathers are equal, even though gold is essentially different from feathers.

The same is true of your body fat and muscle. Even though they weigh the same, a pound of body fat looks and functions differently than a pound of muscle. A pound of body fat is less dense than a pound of muscle, so it takes up more space on your figure than a pound of muscle.



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